12 Recent ItemsYo La Tengo Take Fearless Ass-Beating to the Streets
It's the wtf album title that's on the lips of everyone in indie-dom these days-- and now it's rolling off the tongues of random folks on the street and in offices: I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass. To get the kids psyched for the September 12 release of their latest Matador LP, ketchup-ralliers Yo La Tengo have asked fans to share YouTube videos of them, their friends, their cats, and (seemingly) strangers on the street reciting the kooky, somewhat ass-inine declaration, with as much (or as little) feeling as they please. The band has ass-embled the first round of clips on their album website, which is, yes:
iamnotafraidofyouandiwillbeatyourass.com
What's more, it's not too late to have your own ass-whooping boast posted. For instructions, and to see who's beating ass these days, click the long-ass link above.
Among the current crop of ass-beaters: lovable comedian Aziz Ansari, who has said some other pretty funny stuff. We're scared:
They have it alright, and it is a ginormous tour of North America and Europe. Dates ahead. [MORE...]
Video: M. Ward: "Chinese Translation"
Having already queried doctors, whippoorwills, and killer whales for romantic advice, M. Ward-- or at least his stubby, animated counterpart-- turns to an "old, old man" in the video for "Chinese Translation" (from his latest Merge longplayer, Post-War, which came out this week). The thoughtful piece was put together by directors Joel Trussell (responsible for Jason Forrest's kickass "War Photographer" vid) and Eric Johnson, animators Gene Blakefield and Darin Bendall, and assistant Chris Chua. Very autumn-appropriate.
Ariel Pink Plays Nowheresville
Bogalusa poised to become the "L.A." of LA
After being forced to cancel his European tour with Holy Shit (due to heightened airport security), Ariel Pink is heading deep-- way deep-- into the heart of the American South this weekend to play a show at Bogalusa, Louisiana's Centennial Year Music and Arts Celebration.
What brings L.A.-based Pink to rural Louisiana? Is this the beginning of some ironic backwoods tour? Actually, according to his publicist, the avant-artist is venturing to Bogalusa to help promote his step father's campaign for mayor. Because nothing wins votes like skinny dudes with long hair and art-damaged schizo-pop.
Pink headlines the Saturday, September 2 bill as the lone "rock and roll" act in a lineup of country, jazz, blues, gospel, and inspirational music. It's safe to assume the Centennial Celebration will be the only time he'll share the stage with the likes of the Pleasant Hill Baptist Choir or local gospel singer Gloria "Lori" Kates. According to the oh-so-charming Bogalusa Daily News, an L.A. film crew will capture the weekend's festivities, accompanying Pink to Louisiana in order to film a documentary about him. [MORE...]
Touch and Go Adds Art Show to Fest
Also considering petting zoo, dunk tank, and little sausages on sticks
As if a whole weekend of quality live music weren't enough, Touch and Go just announced the icing on their 25th Anniversary birthday cake: an art show featuring works by 12 of the label's artists. As previously reported, Touch and Go celebrates 25 years of record-releasing goodness with a three day festival (September 8-10) featuring scads of T&G bands at Chicago's Hideout's annual block party. Set times were announced earlier this week.
The art show will take place the week prior to the Block Party (September 4-8) at Chicago's Open End Gallery and feature paintings, sculpture, photographs, and etchings by the following way-too-talented people: Jon Langford (Mekons), Eric Bemis (Rico Bell/Mekons), Tim Kerr (Big Boys), Mick Turner (Dirty Three), Bianca Casady (CocoRosie), Pall Jenkins (The Black Heart Procession), Tom Greenhaigh (Mekons), Tara Jane O'Neil, Sam Coomes (Quasi), Tim Harriss (Kepone), Jeff Mueller (Shipping News), and Jason Noble (Shipping News).
Drummer Departs Be Your Own Pet
Higher education nearly destroys another band
You can't be a Be Your Own Pet forever: not when there's stuff like colleges to attend, record labels to manage, and fraternal side projects to embrace. As announced on BYOP's Infinity Cat label website, drummer Jamin Orrall has left the youthful Nashville-based rockers to concentrate on his own pet pursuits. No word yet on who will replace him in BYOP.
Here's the official statement:
"Jamin Orrall has left the band Be Your Own Pet in order to focus on his family owned label, Infinity Cat as well as looking at colleges for the near future. However he is still staying musically active with the band he formed with his brother Jake, 'JEFF'."
The former fourpiece, now three, recently returned from a string of European festival dates and will still head out on a fall tour of North America on September 19. [MORE...]
Exclusive: Hold Steady Launch Social Networking Site!
Makeoutclub.com now even more irrelevant
Watch your back, MySpace; y'all must've spited the Hold
Steady somehow-- whether it was all the scantily clad photos of preteens or the irritating
bulletin surveys or the friend requests from the shittiest of local bands that
turned Craig Finn & Co. away, we'll never know. In fact, these anti-MySpace
sentiments were likely fabricated by me for the purpose of developing a stellar intro
paragraph. Regardless of their motivation, the Hold Steady are giving the 'Space a run for its money with their first-ever
social networking website, appropriately domain'd
www.BoysandGirlsinAmerica.com.
The page includes a video testimonial feature where viewers can talk about the band, likes and dislikes, life experiences, and more. In addition, there's a message board where the lads and lasses of America and elsewhere can discuss today's most important issues. Jeez we love these guys.
The website will see its official launch next week. And if around this time a thread pops up in the BaGiA forums reading,
"Posted: Thu Sep 7, 2006 4:20 pm
Post subject: Holy Hold Steady we love this album!
It totally rocks \m/"
don't be surprised. [MORE...]
Rapture, Diplo, Wrens, Clipse Head Riottt! Fest
Plus: Girl Talk, Metric, Saul Williams, Explosions in the Sky, Asobi Seksu, more
All aboard! No, not you
guys-- we're talking artists here...artists billed for California's Be the
Riottt! Festival, specifically. It's got a little bit of everything! Set for
November 11 at San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, the eclectic Riottt! lineup includes
the Rapture, Clipse, Diplo, Explosions in the Sky, the Wrens, Metric, Asobi
Seksu, Girl Talk, Sage Francis, Tokyo Police Club, and more.
Check out the full list after the jump! [MORE...]
Video: Bob Dylan: "When the Deal Goes Down"
Directed by Bennett Miller (Capote), Bob Dylan's nostalgic new video for "When the Deal Goes Down" (from Bob's latest, Modern Times, released this week), features a montage of old-timey, shaky-as-shit home videos starring a 1950s-looking Scarlett Johansson. She frolics, she fishes, she feels the wind in her hair...
Hmmm, does Robbie Z have a thing for ScarJo? I think so! The best moment: when she communes with a manatee at some sort of dreamy aquarium. Weird.
As a rule, people just shouldn't fuck with dinosaurs-- not
even junior ones. Sometimes, however, bad, bad thieves break the rules and
steal gear from Dinosaur Jr.'s trailer, which just plain sucks. Them's the
breaks, but they shouldn't be.
The incident took place last night outside of Dino Jr.'s Long Island City, New York hotel. A list detailing all the missing instruments and equipment is being passed along via Internet-- view it by clicking "MORE". If you or anyone you know has information regarding the whereabouts of the gear, please contact Bart Dahl here. There has been no word of any show cancellations. [MORE...]
Lou Reed and Zeitkratzer Redo Metal Machine Music
And it's seriously "clangorous"
Lou Reed is keeping busy, as ever: This year, the sexagenarian has seen various reissues and reinterpretations of his solo material, and each project seems exponentially more ambitious. In June, RCA/Legacy put out a deluxe reissue of Coney Island Baby; this December, Reed, Antony, and others will perform a "theatrically realized version" of Berlin in NYC; and now, the musician is teaming up with avant-garde German music collective Zeitkratzer to create "audacious, clangorous realizations" of 1975's Metal Machine Music for a new CD/DVD out in early 2007 on Asphodel. Fans familiar with the oft-criticized two-disc album (thought to be everything from a weird joke to an elaborate test of fan's allegiance to an early example of noise music) might wonder how exactly they'll pull this off. But Zeitkratzer has churned out quite a few minimalist reworkings, collaborating with the like of Keith Rowe, Lee Ranaldo, Helmut Oehring, and Elliott Sharp. Reed joins the ensemble to play guitar on the re-metallicized album.
Later in September, our man Lou will play a few shows around the U.S.:
09-12 Kingston, NY – Broadway Theater
09-15 Telluride, CO – Telluride Blues Festival
09-16 Santa Fe, NM – Santa Fe Opera House
Exclusive: Paul Smith Talks New Maxïmo Park Record
In the wee days of August,
Maxïmo Park posted a mysterious blog entry on their official website. It read,
"Maxïmo Park have started working today on the follow up to A Certain Trigger with producer Gil Norton (Foo Fighters, The Pixies). They
will be recording in London."
Leaves a bit to be desired, yes? Well Maxïes, this is your lucky day, because your buds over at Pitchfork have tracked down Park frontman Paul Smith for more information, and boy did he have a mouthful to share. The man was kind enough to enlighten us on the details surrounding the band's upcoming record, the importance of lyrics, opening for the Stones, and a run-in with a certain Eddie Vedder. [MORE...]
Thunderbirds Are Now! Extend Tour
Holy exclamation points! We
originally thought that Frenchkiss tweeters Thunderbirds Are Now! were aiming
to make history with their new record, Make History, due in stores
October 3. It has since come to our attention, however, that the band intends
to get its name in the record books not with justanalbum, but with what might
be the largest North American tour ever attempted...ever! Or close to it,
anyway.
Please note that some of these dates were unveiled last month when we posted Make History's meta-title track, "(The Making of) Make History" (listen below). The TAN! trek is now in full bloom and will kick off in late September before diving into October and November with You Say Party! We Say Die! and Rescue. [MORE...]
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Thu: 08-31-06: 05:00 PM CDT
Yo La Tengo Take Fearless Ass-Beating to the Streets
Thu: 08-31-06: 11:30 AM CDT
Exclusive: Hold Steady Launch Social Networking Site!
Today's Other Headlines
- Video: M. Ward: "Chinese Translation"
- Ariel Pink Plays Nowheresville
- Touch and Go Adds Art Show to Fest
- Drummer Departs Be Your Own Pet
- Rapture, Diplo, Wrens, Clipse Head Riottt! Fest
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Thu: 08-31-06
- Yo La Tengo Take Fearless Ass-Beating to the Streets
- Video: M. Ward: "Chinese Translation"
- Ariel Pink Plays Nowheresville
- Touch and Go Adds Art Show to Fest
- Drummer Departs Be Your Own Pet
- Exclusive: Hold Steady Launch Social Networking Site!
- Rapture, Diplo, Wrens, Clipse Head Riottt! Fest
- Video: Bob Dylan: "When the Deal Goes Down"
- Dinosaur Jr.’s Gear Stolen!
- Lou Reed and Zeitkratzer Redo Metal Machine Music
- Exclusive: Langhorne Slim Signs to V2, Readies EP
- Thunderbirds Are Now! Extend Tour
- Exclusive: Paul Smith Talks New Maxïmo Park Record
- Exclusive: Hem Ride Funnel Cloud Across U.S.
Wed: 08-30-06
- Destroyer, Califone, Okkervil River on YETI 4 Comp
- Video: Wolf Parade: "I'll Believe in Anything"
- Infinite Mixtape #37: Peter Bjorn & John: Young Folks [ft. Victoria Bergsman]
- Sufjan Stevens Pens Personal Essay for Topic Magazine
- Oxford Collapse, Chin Up Chin Up Tour
- Lily Allen Releases “LDN” Single, Again
- Table of the Elements Fest Hits Atlanta
- Lemonheads Return with Album and Tour!
- MP3 Premiere: The Decemberists: “Summersong”
- Ben Folds Preps Rarities Collection, Tour
- David Byrne Recruits Banhart, Bunyan for Carnegie Hall
- Photos: So Many Dynamos [The Note; 08/24/06]
- Andrew Bird Scores Dance
Tue: 08-29-06
- Infinite Mixtape #36: Flying Canyon: "In the Reflection"
- Razorlight Forced to Postpone U.S. Tour
- Video: Scott Walker: "Jesse"
- Sigur Ros to Perform Split Sides Soundtrack
- The Like Young Break Up
- Rhino Compiles Hardcore Giants for Film Soundtrack
- Master Musicians of Joujouka Cavort With Corgan
- Centro-Matic Tour the West
- Neil Young Unleashes Horde of Videos
- XL Releases Serious Times Reggae Compilation
- Lou Reed, Antony to Perform Berlin Live
- Mew Plot North American Invasion
- The Gossip Tour With Erase Errata, Mika Miko
- Photos: Aloha [Schubas, Chicago; 08/20/06]
Mon: 08-28-06
- Thurston, Mogwai, Tortoise on "American Life" Comp
- Strokes' Hammond, Jr. Streams Solo Songs
- Thom Yorke Promises Live Radiohead DVD
- Exclusive: DFA Announces Fall DJ Tour
- Akron/Family Reveal Meek Tracklist, Release Date
- The Tyde's Three's Co. Hits U.S. Shores
- Tapes 'n Tapes Release Single, Tour With Annuals
- Touch and Go 25 Fest Set Times Announced
- T.V. Eye: August 28-September 3, 2006
- Jeff Tweedy Announces Wilcoless Solo DVD, Wilco Tour
Fri: 08-25-06
- Ben Gibbard Covers "World's Worst Song" at Benefit
- Jose Gonzalez Tours With Zero 7 and Beyond
- TV on the Radio Explain Themselves Again
- MP3: Portishead Debut Previously Unheard Tracks
- Infinite Mixtape #35: Califone: "The Orchids"
- Junior Boys Kick Off Tour
- Daft Punk, Duran Duran Head Bang! Festival
- Xiu Xiu Talk Myriad Projects, Share Exclusive Video
- Serena Maneesh Prep New Single, Podcast
Thu: 08-24-06
- TV on the Radio Explain Themselves (Sorta)
- Exclusive: Stills to Take on North America
- Castanets and Jana Hunter Tour by Sailboat
- The Raconteurs to Tour With Bob Dylan
- Revealed: White Stripes on "The Simpsons"
- Bloc Party Tour With Panic! at the Disco
- Shins Reveal Album, Song Titles
- Video: Lily Allen: "LDN" [Version 2]
- Badly Drawn Boy Gets Born, Tours
- Anthology Brings Crate-Digging into the Digital Age
- Harvey Family Murderer Gets Death Penalty
- Beck, Basement Jaxx, QOTSA Head Detour Music Fest
- Stream: David Banner: "Saints Row"
- Thurston Moore Helps Resurrect Peter Walker
- Kevin Shields Teams With Patti Smith
- Sufjan Stevens, David Byrne Duet at NYC Benefit
Wed: 08-23-06
- Oxford Collapse Remember the Night Parties
- Brian Wilson, Tom Waits Judge Your Music
- Devendra, Boris, Furnaces Head Arthur Nights
- Video: Scissor Sisters: "I Don't Feel Like Dancing"
- Unreleased Cobain Interviews Become Movie
- Video: Dirty on Purpose: "No Radio"
- Golden Smog Announce Tweedyless Tour
- MP3: Asobi Seksu: "Strings (Glass Factory Remix)"
- Hold Steady Tour Even More
- Numero Group Parties With God
- Stream: Beck: "Nausea", "Strange Apparition"
- Stream: Jarvis Cocker's First Podcast
- Depeche Mode to Release Best Of
Tue: 08-22-06
- Animal Collective Plan Live Box, EP, Tour
- MP3: Fort Minor vs. Bloc Party
- Mogwai, Portishead Members Collaborate
- Stream: Basement Jaxx: Crazy Itch Radio
- Death Cab's Chris Walla Goes Solo
- Weezer Deny Breakup Rumors
- The Grates Schedule North American Tour
- Stones Throw, Adult Swim Want to Make You a Cartoon
- Video: The Boy Least Likely To: "Hugging My Grudge"
- Modest Mouse Set Title, Release Date
- Isis Triple Whammy: New LP, DVD, Tour
- Infinite Mixtape #34: Beach House: "Apple Orchard"
- Exclusive: Lily Allen's American Takeover
- MP3: Cold War Kids: Daytrotter Session
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cover Sonic Youth
- Amy Millan Adds U.S. Dates to Fall Tour
- Video: Beck: "Motorcade"
- Exclusive: TV on the Radio U.S. Bonus Tracks
- Deerhoof Finish New Album, Add Tour Dates
Mon: 08-21-06
- Long Winters Announce Fall Tour
- Infinite Mixtape #33: The Thermals: "A Pillar of Salt"
- Video: The Rapture: "Get Myself Into It" (Final Version)
- Jay-Z Announces World Tour Dates
- Jack White's Detroit Home Up for Sale
- Figurines Schedule North American Tour
- Video: The Killers: "When You Were Young"
- Exclusive: Domino to Release Josef K Anthology
- Photos: Japanther / This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb [Beat Kitchen; 08/12/06]
- Girl Talk's Night Ripper Dissected
- T.V. Eye: August 21-27, 2006
- Exclusive: Grizzly Bear to Tour With TV on the Radio
- Stream: Darkel (Air Solo Project)
- Fridge Talk New LP
- TVT to Release Spawn of Crunk Hits
- Video: Katherine McPhee vs. the Afghan Whigs
- Pitchfork Seeks Business Intern
- Stephen Malkmus Gets Remixed
- Hot Chip Schedule Fall Tour
Fri: 08-18-06
- Holopaw's Beachwolf Recovering From Beating
- Herbert Kicks off Tour
- Arctic Monkeys Invite Fans to Phone In and Sound Off!
- Cardigans Talk U.S. Release of Gravity
- Damon Albarn's New Band Gets Name, First Gig
- Replacements' Westerberg, Stinson Unite for Cartoon
- Supersystem Tour Behind Sophomore LP
- Exclusive Premiere: Hold Steady: "Chips Ahoy!" MP3
- The Killers Announce Massacre of a Tour
- Electrelane Release Singles, Rarities Comp
- David Pajo to Release Second Pajo Album
- Exclusive: Beck Curates NextFest Concert
- Exclusive: Menomena Talk Barsuk Signing
- Envy Drop LP, Tear Across America
- Xiu Xiu Adopt New Member, Prep Sixth LP
- Infinite Mixtape #32: Grizzly Bear: "Lullabye"
- Bloc Party, Maximo Producer Paul Epworth... RAPS!
- Broken Social Scene Announce Fall U.S. Tour
- Live Franz, Outkast, Dizzee on BBC Comp
- XTC's Andy Partridge to Release Rarities Box
- MP3: Jedi Mind Tricks Bring Sufjan to the Streets
- Built to Spill Working on New Album
Thu: 08-17-06
- Be Your Own Pet Announce Fall Tour
- Giddy Motors Tell Their Crew to Do Easy
- Gnarls Barkley's Rider Revealed
- Tom Waits Gives the World Orphans
- Terrorism Takes Down Ariel Pink Tour
- Erlend Oye Talks Kings of Convenience
- J Dilla Release Parties Scheduled
- Andrew WK, Thurston Moore on To Live and Shave LP
- Kelly Clarkson Goes Hair Metal
- Man Man Announce Fall Tour
- MP3: Skew: "The Eraser Erased" (Thom Yorke mega-remix)
- Ian Svenonius and Calvin Johnson Embark on Tour
- Thermals Prep New Album, Tour
- Jon Spencer Teams With North Mississippi Allstars
- Vitalic to Tour North America This Fall
- The National Announce Tour
- Lily Allen Schedules U.S. Shows
Wed: 08-16-06
- Thermals, Erase Errata, Ponys Play Fuck Yeah Fest
- Nouvelle Vague to Tour in Support of U.S. Release
- Ex-Test Icicle Frontman Forms New Bands
- Video: The Wrens: "She Sends Kisses"
- Mirah Remix Album Due
- Smashing Pumpkins Enlist Queen/Cars Producer
- Ryan Adams Produces New Willie Nelson Album
- Mojave 3 Unveil Fall Tour
- Slits, Knife, Deerhoof, Black Keys Play CMJ
- Pretty Girls Make Graves Reveal North American Tour
- Stones Throw Celebrates 10 Years With Comp, Tour
- Pinback Rarities Compilation Due
- Stream: Kelis: "Fuck Them Bitches"
- Aloha Say Hello to U.S. Tour
- Islands Reveal North American Tour
- Newsom, Vitalic, Tapes 'n Tapes Play Pop Montreal
- Xiu Xiu Serve up Another EP
Tue: 08-15-06
- Video: The Rapture: "Get Myself Into It"
- Video: The Streets: "Deluded in My Mind"
- Radiohead Get Crunk on Skeet Spirit
- +/- (Plus/Minus) Sign to Absolutely Kosher
- Black Keys Give Us Your Touch
- Lil' Wayne Arrested
- Missy Elliott to Release Greatest Hits Comp
- Raconteurs to "Host" MTV Awards
- Beck Reveals The Information!
- Basement Jaxx to Rock NYC
- Yo La Tengo Rally for Ketchup
- The Rapture Stream Pieces of New Album
- TV on the Radio Announce Fall Tour
Mon: 08-14-06
- Interpol Sign to Capitol!
- Mars Volta Attacked With Urine!
- Gang Gang Dance Talk DVD, Gorillas
- New Primal Scream LP Gets U.S. Release
- Outback Steakhouse Hearts Of Montreal
- Video: The Knife: "Marble House"
- Infinite Mixtape #31: Swan Lake: "All Fires"
- T.V. Eye: August 14-20, 2006
- Video: Teddybears: "Film Spoof Medley"
- Walkmen Talk Pussy Cats; Exclusive Stream
- Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan Talks Ass-Beating
- Video: S-K's Carrie Brownstein Interviews Hussein
- Cursive Schedule Fall Tour
- Mountain Goats Announce Fall Tour
- Glenn Kotche, Nels Cline Talk Tour, Wilco
Fri: 08-11-06
- Touch & Go Anniversary Lineup Finalized
- Bonnie "Prince" Billy to Tour West Coast
- Secret Machines Getting Up Close and Personal on Tour
- Stream: The Walkmen: "Many Rivers to Cross"
- Birdmonster Hit the Road in Support of Debut
- Califone Set Release Date, Tour
- Boris / Sunn 0))) Collaboration Unleashed
- Video: Clell Tickle: Indie Marketing Guru
- Stream: Ghostface feat. Trife Da God: "Man Up"
- Radiohead Become Lullabies
- OXES Sue Old Navy Over T-Shirt Design
- Deerhoof, Vashti Bunyan, Erase Errata Play Halleluwah
Thu: 08-10-06
- Video: Ted Leo in Baltimore
- Boy Least Likely To Deliver Best Personality Test Ever
- Sleater-Kinney, Death Cab, M.I.A. on KEXP Comp
- Stream: TV on the Radio: "Wolf Like Me"
- Dr. Octagon Visits Earth for Tour
- Infinite Mixtape #30: Killer Mike: "That's Life"
- Jay-Z Tours World for Water Crisis Awareness
- Brightblack Morning Light Curate Quiet Quiet Fest
Wed: 08-09-06
- Franz, B&S, TVOTR, Pipettes Play La Route du Rock
- Sandy West of the Runaways Fighting Cancer
- Saddle Creek: Not Just a Label, But a Civic Project!
- Video: OK Go: "Here It Goes Again"
- Exclusive: Yeah Yeah Yeahs Announce Fall U.S. Tour
- DeVotchKa Launch Tour
- Cat Power Can't Stop Touring
- Art of Noise Box Set Due
- Joanna Newsom Tracklist Confirmed
- Video: Beck: "We Dance Alone"
- Raconteurs, Killers, Fiona Apple to Play Vegoose
- Frank Black Plays With Foo Fighters, Petty, Himself
- Jamie Lidell Schedules Fall Tour
- Infinite Mixtape #29: Ratatat: "Lex"
- Voxtrot Announce More Shows
- Video: Junior Senior: "Can I Get Get Get"
- Trail of Dead Tour With Blood Brothers
- Hot Snakes Live Album Due
Tue: 08-08-06
- Architecture in Helsinki Tour, Get Remixed
- Exclusive: Jenny Lewis Announces Fall Tour
- Erlend Oye Is The Whitest Boy Alive
- Rogue Wave Tour With Guster, Jason Collett
- Beck Reveals Album Title, Release Date
- Scissor Sisters Announce Tour
- Lambchop Get Damaged
- Shins Album Pushed to 2007
- Stars' Torquil Campbell Preps Second Memphis Album
- Nikki Sudden Final Album, Autobiography Due
- MP3: Exclusive: The Longcut: "Last Act (live)"
- DJ Shadow Schedules Tour
- Depeche Mode to Release DVD
Mon: 08-07-06
- Photos: Lollapalooza 2006 [Grant Park, Chicago, IL; 4-6 August, 2006]
- Sub Pop Embraces Renewable Energy
- Bobby Bare Jr. Pals With Trail of Dead, MMJ, Walkmen
- Kompakt Preps Total 7; Exclusive mp3
- Lily Allen Signs to Capitol in U.S.
- Jason Forrest Forms the Jason Forrest Band
- Field Music Prep New Album; Exclusive mp3
- Deadly Snakes Break Up
- Tegan and Sara Coming to DVD
- T.V. Eye: August 7-13, 2006
- Video: Arctic Monkeys: "Leave Before the Lights Come On"
- Exclusive: Cass McCombs Signs to Domino
- The Knife Schedule U.S. Shows
Fri: 08-04-06
- MP3: Exclusive: Snow Patrol: "Chasing Cars (The Hey Team Remix)"
- Strokes' Hammond Goes Solo
- Ted Leo Triumphs Over Power Outage
- MP3: Swan Lake: "All Fires"
- Cat Power Adds Shows, Joins Bob Dylan Tribute Show
- Get Him Eat Him Prep LP, Tour With Evangelicals
- Outkast Reveal Idlewild Tracklist
- Death From Above 1979 Call It Quits
- Johnny Marr Officially a Member of Modest Mouse
- Blood Meridian: Another Black Mountain Side Project
- Stream: The Black Keys: Four New Songs
- Arthur Lee of Love Dead at 61
- Bonde do Role Singer Doing OK After Accident
Thu: 08-03-06
- Four Tet to Release Remix LP
- Exclusive: Cold War Kids Sign to Downtown
- Infinite Mixtape #28: Sally Shapiro: "I'll Be By Your Side"
- World of Twist's Anthony William Ogden Dies
- Tokyo Police Club Prep U.S. Release, Tour
- MP3: Lily Allen: "Smile (Gutter Mix)"
- Thom Yorke Versus Tony Blair
- MP3: Exclusive: Luomo: "Really Don't Mind"
- Shapes and Sizes Tour
- Pipettes to Release New Single
- Sub Pop Soundtracks Hockey Video Game
- Beck, Shins, Yeah Yeah Yeahs Play Download Festival
Wed: 08-02-06
- Delgados to Release Peel Sessions
- Ex-Lifetime Bassist Arrested for Hoarding Body Parts
- Red Krayola Kick Off Rare Tour
- Stream: Ryan Adams: "France"
- Jeremy Enigk Returns
- Bloc Party Confirm Track Titles
- Sleater-Kinney: Too Hot for D.C.!
- Sufjan Stevens Adds Two Shows
- Joanna Newsom Reveals New Album Title, Release Date
- Ellen Allien Unveils New Fashion Line
- Junior Boys Schedule Tour
- Art Brut Sign to Mute UK, Work on Second LP
- Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth, CYHSY Play Osheaga Fest
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